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Snagged this off FB. The orginal post if from Don and Millie Nelms.
Late notice, but perhaps if you are nearby.......


It appears the Cargill hosted luncheon in Jasper will still be happening tomorrow. The following is from Don Nelms:

Until Cargill acknowledges that they made a mistake and rectify their mistake, there will continue to be a large hog farm in the Buffalo National River watershed.

Cargill is hosting a luncheon for the Arkansas Senate and House Agriculture Committees at the Ozark Café on Wednesday, May 22, in Jasper. This would be a perfect time for you to send a message to Cargill. If everyone would show up on the square of Jasper by about 10:30 and protest until the legislators leave around 1 o'clock, I think it would have a profound effect on the disposition of this whole issue.

Cargill thinks they're going to just wait this thing out and that the people voicing opposition to their locating this hog farm in Newton County are just a bunch of wacko environmentalists. Let's prove them wrong. Let's show them that the opposition comes from all walks of life.

Show up at 10:30 on Wednesday of this week and show Cargill your displeasure with their lack of sensitivity and true interest in our community.

Don and Millie Nelms

Come now! Didn't the Occupy Movement, Million Man March, SAFE anti-gun protests, etc. teach us anything? Protests are by and large pretty ineffective these days. I just don't know if Cargill, the largest private coorporation in the U.S. ist going to be swayed much by a bunch of protestors recruited on Facebook and other forms of social media to confront them during a lunch meeting in Jasper Arkansas.

But as you say -- folks from "all walks of life" can certainly join in on the fun...and perhaps this is the one protest that yields an irreversible change in corporate culture in which the views of those who protest and cry the loudest are embraced and made part of the structure of the business for evermore.

@ CC: ETA before 2400 hours.

Felt like I was rainin' on the parade...rain be best when it falls into a river or stream.